Colleen E. Ramage

Colleen Ramage focuses her practice on advocating for plaintiffs in the area of employment rights. She has successfully represented clients facing harassment and discrimination based on age, sex, race, and disability, religion, national origin, and retaliation. She also represents employees for violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Equal Pay Act, and related Constitutional claims. Colleen assists clients in negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements. She is deeply committed to protecting employees’ rights and ensuring workplace fairness. As a highly experienced attorney, her effectiveness is widely recognized by the legal community.

Colleen earned her Bachelor of Arts from Dickinson College before obtaining her Juris Doctor from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. She is frequently invited to share her knowledge as a presenter on a variety of employment law topics.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a Fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County (President, 2023) and a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America.

Colleen has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been named the 2025 Best Lawyer of the Year – Pittsburgh in the practice area of employment law-individuals and the 2023 Best Lawyer of the Year – Pittsburgh in the practice areas of employment law and employment litigation. She was recognized by The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly as 1 of 15 recipients of “The Women of Year” award in 2008. Colleen is also named a Top 50 Pittsburgh Super Lawyer. Colleen is certified as a member of the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®. She has also been recognized by Law Dragon as 1 of 500 Leading Civil Rights Plaintiff Employment Lawyers and is rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale Hubbell.

Colleen is a Past Chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association. She is a former Council Member of the ACBA Federal Court Section and served on the ACBA Federal Court Local Rules Committee in 2015. Colleen is also a member of the Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit, the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Western Pennsylvania Employment Lawyers Association. She is also a past president of the Duquesne University Law Alumni Association.

Throughout her successful career, she has secured numerous substantial verdicts, including several multi-million-dollar verdicts in employment discrimination and retaliation cases. Her victories have included claims against major corporations, public school districts, the region’s largest healthcare system and a major airline company.